Jewish Civic Leader Emil Lehmann (1894)
Emil Lehmann (1829-1898) was a Dresden lawyer and the first Jew to be elected (in 1865) to Dresden’s municipal council. With brief interruptions, he held that seat until 1883, serving much of this....

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Court Preacher Adolf Stöcker (1880)
Adolf Stöcker (1835-1909) was a court preacher and the leader of the antisemitic Christian Social Party. This woodcut shows him in 1880. Some contemporaries referred to Stöcker as Germany’s “second....

Historian Theodor Mommsen (c. 1870)
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903) was an archeologist, jurist, and historian of the ancient world. He served as a liberal member of the Prussian House of Deputies (1873-82) and the Reichstag (1881-84).....